If we accept our own acceptance all of the things we hold to be inherent, negative attributes of human nature—greed and laziness, rage and jealousy—will be unmasked. We will come to recognize them as fear in disguise. We hoard against the fear that we will not have enough. We overspend because we think more things will silence our dread of having nothing. We are lazy and we procrastinate lest we prove to be incapable. We think that we can hide behind the fiction that we have not failed if we have not tried.
